Chanel, at least for me, is just a go-to for 50+ year old women that want to look and feel expensive, but they want to separate themselves from the youth as much as possible.
This is stuffy, boxy, outdated, and without a single ounce of youth or sexiness in it. Chanel woman is a Saint Laurent man, caricatures and costumes of themselves. Youthful and bland models of Saint Laurent past collection give me the same feeling as here, but that man is a cosplay of an office worker, like a schoolboy trying to appear as his CEO daddy. Chanel woman is the same, but she wants to look like her CEO's wife or boomer cougar mommy. It is so dusty and stale, like eating cold French (pun intended) fries that were delivered hours ago.
The worst part is that as much as I also dislike Jacquemus, Enfants Riches Déprimés, Bode, a lot of current Margiela energy, and so on, I would still prefer these to a Chanel woman or a SL man. At least those do not take themselves seriously and sell their subpar quality apparel with somewhat less branding for a slightly lower price.
People here love to ridicule and despise the idea of Hedi at Chanel, but maybe they should hire him for tailoring TED talks for a season. At least, he would never send a woman looking like that picture above in a turquoise ensemble, looking like she put an Amazon Prime delivery box on her body and painted it light blue.
Or, possibly, that blue tweed ensemble with a pair of denim pants with flower embroidery that looks like a blue brick and two blue tubes sticking out from it.
The one on Jill Kortleve is almost okay, but the stylist decided she needs to show her belly button in the worst way possible, for some reason? It does not look like a confident "look at my figure" playful statement. It looks like a woman, dressed in a Chanel outfit, went to Burger King and after having 5 combos and 3 milkshakes decided that her belly feels too heavy now and she needs to loosen up after a junk food lollapalooza.
The lack of any shape in the majority of those sleeves and waists is diabolical, I don't care even if half of the forum wants to burn me like a witch after this, I will die on this hill.
